Uninstall Brother Printer Drivers/Programs/Etc

If you want everything gone, kill the Brother folder in Library/Printers.

The control center software is what allows automatic operation of the various features of the MFD. If you kill it you'll prevent the MFD from operating as designed. Among other things you may have a problem scanning stuff or using the MFD as a copier. The MFD's networking capabilities may also be affected. Ditto for the fax send/recieve ability.

I think that you can just quit the control centre software. Failing that, you can ID the offending items in Activity Monitor and kill them there, then go to Startup Items and remove them from the start up list.

One question: if you didn't want the features, why did you buy that particular MFD?

The control center software is what allows automatic operation of the various features of the MFD. If you kill it you'll prevent the MFD from operating as designed. Among other things you may have a problem scanning stuff or using the MFD as a copier. The MFD's networking capabilities may also be affected. Ditto for the fax send/recieve ability.

I think that you can just quit the control centre software. Failing that, you can ID the offending items in Activity Monitor and kill them there, then go to Startup Items and remove them from the start up list.

One question: if you didn't want the features, why did you buy that particular MFD?

I've had the same problems with this Brother Printer my g/f bought too. I installed the Control Center not knowing it would install all this other stuff too. After reading through this thread, I've removed the entire Brothers folder in Library\Printers.

I've been able to remove the program but there is a stupid blinking world icon that appears during startup followed by a folder with a question mark in it. It slows down my startup significantly and I find it very annoying.

Does anyone know how to remove the blinking world icon? I do not wish to use the Brother printer any more.

The blinking world icon/questionmark at startup is usually there when you're trying to boot from a server rather than from your local hard disk. The first thing to do would be to go to the Startup Disk pane of System Prefernces and select your desired startup disk. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=31355>.

If this doesn't fix the blinking world icon/questionmark, you have other problems. Run the Repair Disk option on Disk Utilities. Better yet, if you have Disk Warrior, run that, too.

This problem has nothing to do with Brother printers.

Just to add to the thread, rather than start a new one...

I have a Brother MFC on a network, and I thought I'd see if I could get the scanning features to work. I went to the Brother Center and installed the recommended software. Here is what I found:

The twain driver causes Photoshop to crash when used. It appears to look for a local scanner and can't find it on the LAN.

The brother tools all appear to not work. There is a status monitor that always says the printer is not ready. I think because it can't find the printer.

The control center software appears to launch when I log in, even though it isn't in my startup items. Since installing the software, the fan on my G5 runs at high, regardless of the temperature of the system. After "uninstalling" the software (killing /Libraries/Printers/Brother/Utilities), the fan issue went away.

Now I just have to find the twain plugin and kill it.

In summary, the brother software appears to not help and only hurts if you have a MFC on a LAN.

Just to add to the thread, rather than start a new one...

I have a Brother MFC on a network, and I thought I'd see if I could get the scanning features to work. I went to the Brother Center and installed the recommended software. Here is what I found:

The twain driver causes Photoshop to crash when used. It appears to look for a local scanner and can't find it on the LAN.

The brother tools all appear to not work. There is a status monitor that always says the printer is not ready. I think because it can't find the printer.

The control center software appears to launch when I log in, even though it isn't in my startup items. Since installing the software, the fan on my G5 runs at high, regardless of the temperature of the system. After "uninstalling" the software (killing /Libraries/Printers/Brother/Utilities), the fan issue went away.

Now I just have to find the twain plugin and kill it.

In summary, the brother software appears to not help and only hurts if you have a MFC on a LAN.

Thanks Charles. The icon is gone now. Didn't realize it was a startup disk issue.